Author: Heinrich Rebehn Date: To: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim CC: Heinrich Rebehn, exim users Subject: Re: [exim] trying to use 'pipe' in an exim filter, but not working
Your "/usr/local/mailserver/process.sh" *is* executable (of course) ?
-Heinrich
On 13.09.2009, at 19:27, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> I've got a system_filter file, which I've verified that exim does
> indeed
> refer to, but somehow the 'pipe' just does not seem to work. Can
> anybody
> debug why?
>
> == system_filter ==
> # Exim filter
> if $sender_address does not end "@gmail.com" and $h_to contains "
> test@???" then
> fail "sending not allowed."
> endif
> if $h_to contains "test@???" then
> unseen pipe "/usr/local/mailserver/process.sh"
> endif
> ========
>
> I've tried at various times playing with the first "if", and yes, I
> do get
> the fail message when the conditions match (so I know exim is
> loading the
> filter). But whenever I get pass the first "if" (like in this case,
> sending
> from "@gmail.com" to "test@???", the pipe just does not seem
> to be
> triggered.
>
> ==== process.sh ========
> #!/bin/sh
> tmp=`mktemp`
> cat > $tmp
> echo "sometext" >/tmp/foo
> ===============
>
> The message gets sent to the inbox of the test account, but
> process.sh does
> not run? (There is nothing in /tmp)
>
>
> -jf
>
> --
> In the meantime, here is your PSA:
> "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would
> not
> help."
> -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
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